With the announcement of the new BlackBerry® Bold™ 9900 smartphone and BlackBerry® Bold™ 9930 smartphone at the BlackBerry® World™ conference, I wanted to provide an overview of the devices from the perspective of the developer, in order to help developers understand what opportunities these new smartphones provide.

The BlackBerry Bold 9900 smartphone and the BlackBerry Bold 9930 smartphone are the first BlackBerry® smartphones to support BlackBerry® 7, and also the first BlackBerry smartphones to feature a touch interface on a traditional BlackBerry form factor.

Java developers can check out the BlackBerry 7 developer page for more information on the new APIs and to download the new tools needed to get started.

Additionally, BlackBerry® WebWorks™ developers can continue to run their existing BlackBerry WebWorks apps in BlackBerry 7, reaping the benefits of the improved JavaScript compiler as well as having the ability to take advantage of the additional HTML5 elements supported in BlackBerry 7. To get started, BlackBerry WebWorks developers will want to visit the BlackBerry 7 developer page in order to test out the new browser functionality via the simulators for the new BlackBerry Bold 9900 series smartphones.

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